The Art Divas / Divas of Verse
Blog of Rabih Alameddine
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Epilogue by Robert Lowell
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Epilogue Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?...
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Bodhisattva by Sarah Arvio
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Bodhisattva The new news is I love you my nudist the new news is I love you my buddhist my naked body and bud...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats
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Leda and the Swan A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Leda, After the Swan by Carl Phillips
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Leda, After the Swan Perhaps, in the exaggerated grace of his weight settling, the wings raised, held ...
Monday, February 1, 2016
Weariness of Men by Frank Stanford
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Weariness of Men My grandmother said when she was young The grass was so wild and high You couldn’t see a man ...
Transformed Creatures by Liu Xia
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Transformed Creatures You have a strange pet — one eye is a cat’s, the other a sheep’s. Yet, it won’t sociali...
Sunday, January 31, 2016
The Mercy by Philip Levine
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The Mercy The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island eighty-three years ago was named “The Mercy.” She remem...
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